The purpose of the paper is to determine and empirically examine the effect of human resource
management practices on knowledge transfer within multinational corporations. It is suggested that
the employment of human resource practices, which affect absorptive capacity of knowledge
receivers and support organizational learning environment, is positively related to the degree of
knowledge transfer to the subsidiary. Moreover, the higher degree of knowledge transfer is
expected when human resource management practices are applied as an integrated system of
interdependent practices. Hypotheses derived from these arguments are tested on the data from 92
subsidiaries of Danish multinational corporations located in 11 countries.
Key words: knowledge transfer, multintional corporations, HRM, complementarity

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The paper supports the idea that organizations can institute various internal structures,
policies and practices to overcome transfer barriers and facilitate the degree of knowledge
transfer. I discuss a framework for future empirical research on the relations between
human resource management (HRM) practices and knowledge transfer in multinational
corporations (MNC). The proposed model is empirically testable, includes a wider range
of HRM practices and is not limited to one mode of foreign operations only.

In this exploratory study we look at human asset aspects of offshore outsourcing of services
that over time become more advanced and strategic potent to the outsourcing firms. As a
consequence, the outsourcing firms might want to internalize the operations. We focus on the
ways that outsourcing firms may transfer key personnel of local service providers to whollyowned
subsidiaries. We argue that a felt need for applying more powerful incentives on key
personnel of the service provider ‐ to harness and empower the sourcing operation ‐ may in
itself be a motive for, and key driver of, the internalization process.

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Human capital has often been discussed in transaction cost economics, particularly in connection with understanding the employment relation. This chapter reviews Williamson’s thinking on the issue, explains how it differs from Coase and Simon’s, and briefly discusses the relevant empirical literature. The chapter also covers property rights theory, and discusses various critiques of the treatment of human capital in transaction cost economics.

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This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Osing a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities.
Keywords: Exports, Wages, Human Capital, Rent Sharing, Matched Worker-Firm Data
JEL Classification: J30, F10, I20

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This paper argues that the conceptualization of the human, the computer and the domain of use in competing lines of UX research have problematic similarities and superficial differences. The paper qualitatively analyses concepts and models in five research papers that together represent two influential lines of UX research: aesthetics and temporal UX, and two use situations: using a website and starting to use a smartphone. The results suggest that the two lines of UX research share a focus on users’ evaluative judgments of technology, both focuses on product qualities rather than activity domains, give little details about users, and treat human-computer interaction as perception. The conclusion gives similarities and differences between the approaches to UX. The implications for theory building are indicated.

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The development of corporate communication in recent years has brought about a fading of the division of labor between commercial and non-commercial organizations. While the practices of commercial organizations are becoming increasingly ethicalized, so the practices of non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly commercialized.
This paper explores the use of media discourse for the communication of ethical messages by humanitarian organizations, caught, as they are, in a tension between, on the one hand, the commercial strategies of visibility and still greater dependence on the media, and, on the other hand, the public’s skepticism toward mediated morality and what is commonly referred to as compassion fatigue. The issue is investigated through an analysis of a TV spot produced by the Danish section of Amnesty International in 2004. This spot is taken as an example of how the organization’s branding strategies testify to a high degree of reflexivity about the conditions of what Luc Boltanski calls a Crisis of Pity. The analysis illustrates how, in the face of compassion fatigue, the organization manages to carve out a new space for itself in the marketized ethical discourse, and leads to a discussion of the consequences of such rebranding for the construction of morality by the organization.

Following the workshop “Practicing Humanities and Social Sciences
in Management Education” at the University of St.Gallen in November
2012, the Copenhagen Business School was happy to host the follow-up
workshop “Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education
– Writing, Researching, Teaching”. Yet again we were proud to welcome
international scholar adding great ideas and perspectives and initiating
fruitful discussion concerning the debates around management education.
This booklet contains the program, paper abstracts as well as articles
from the online journalism incubator Studentreporter.org and the
online Grasp-Magazine, summarizing various aspects of the workshop.
We would like to thank all scholars and participants for their great
contributions as well as a the Haniel Foundation for making the events
possible.
For further information about the workshops, projects and ongoing
discussions please visit our online-platform: www.practical-reasoning.eu.

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A Model for Analysing the Progress of Knowledge Development in Developing Country Firms

Lehmann, Sanne(København, 2007)

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This paper addresses the crucial call for upgrading to more value-added production in developing country firms in the light of increased global competition and suggests that such upgrading demands a shift in focus from investment in technology to investment in people, knowledge and learning. In this line of thinking, the aim is to propose a model for analysing the progress of knowledge improvements in developing countries as an outcome of the management of human, social and organisational capital. In this regard, the paper considers relevant practices and strategies in the context of developing country firms, the challenges that effect firms and institutions in this process, and the appropriate level and method of the analysis.

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We survey, organize, and discuss the literature on the role of organizational practices
for explaining innovation outcomes. We discuss how individual practices influence
innovation, and how the clustering of specific practices matters for innovation
outcomes. Relatedly, we discuss various possible mediators of the HRM/innovation
link, such as knowledge sharing, social capital and network effects. We argue that the
causal mechanisms underlying the HRM/innovation links are still ill-understood, calling
for further research.

The committees under IFIP include the Technical Committee TC13 on Human
– Computer Interaction within which the work of this volume has been conducted.
TC 13 on Human-Computer Interaction has as its aim to encourage
theoretical and empirical human science research to promote the design and
evaluation of human-oriented ICT. Within TC 13 there are different Working
Groups concerned with different aspects of Human-Computer Interaction.
The flagship event of TC13 is the bi-annual international conference called
INTERACT at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed
papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high. Publications
arising from these TC13 events are published as conference proceedings
such as the INTERACT proceedings or as collections of selected and edited
papers from working conferences and workshops. See
http://www.ifip.org/ for aims and scopes of TC13 and its associated Working
Groups

Internet- and sensor based ICT systems for climate management in greenhouses presents challenges for the understanding of how technology mediates the interaction between humans and specific work contexts, which is the topic of the field of Human Work Interaction Design (HWID). In this paper, we will analyze and discuss how to combine empirical work analysis with interaction design techniques, with a focus on sensor-based prototypes. The proposed method is action research that will use a combination of theory from usability, work analysis, and prototyping techniques. We wish to investigate possibilities for designing, using and evaluating interactive sensor based prototypes for designing systems, learning key skills, and enhancing current training methods, all of this in a work context.